[NedIsakoff]

The company I work for requires a password change every 60 days and a history of 9 passwords. Every other password I have in my 1Password so its ultra strong and secure (I use a 5 word passphrase). For my login password I just change the last digit in a loop between 0 and 9.

[pivo]

Pro tip: With a history of 9 passwords, change your password 10 times every time you change it until you loop back to the original. That way you can use the same password indefinitely.

[epitrochoidal]

I tried that one, but it doesn't work when there is another policy that says you are only allowed one password change per day.

[NedIsakoff]

I thought of that, but we have a really bad AD/Mac setup where changing your password takes 30-60 minutes to propagate. During the time you try both your old and new passwords until they work.

If you try to change it again during the 30-60 minutes propagation time, then you need to try even more passwords passwords. Too complex to deal with.

[wolco]

Great idea.

[Ididntdothis]

Same here. I have a few numbers in my password which I increment every three months. I would have a problem if their history had more than 9 passwords :)